• From illegally blind people to the smell of outer space, we answer some of your most
burning questions about life • Hey there, my name is Melissa, I'll be
reading out the questions and answers • HELLBENT
10 – astrel11 - Can people be illegally blind?
• Well actually yes, it says here under section 16, proposition A that if a person
isn’t precisely three-quarters cross-eyed they’re not legally blind and they can and
will be arrested for doing life wrong.
• * • … seriously?
• What, my magazine?
I got more if you want one.
I’m not selfish.
• Actually the term ‘legally blind’ doesn’t mean that the blind person is or
isn’t following the law, it just means they meet the criteria for being so blind that
it’s a disability, which in most places means they have 20/200 vision or worse as
well as some other criteria.
9 – Shaylynn Spinner – How do animals change colour?
• Pretty much the same way humans do, they stay out in the sun for too long and go red,
turns out this isn’t exactly smart since it tends to hurt them quite a lot.
• * • STOP DYING
• …ahem.
• Eh.
It’s just a dog, it doesn’t have feelings.
• Well some animals do this by simply growing different fur depending on the season, but
others have a bunch of coloured pigments under the skin that get covered or uncovered depending
on the colour they want to show off.
This is called a chromatophore— • Pfft chromatophore, you’re such a nerd.
• …I… uh… shut up Hellbent. 8 – ParadoxVatriox - Will Pangaea ever form
again?
• What?
PAN-GYA?
The hell is that?
How is that even spelled?
I can’t even look it up, Google just gives me results for frying pans…
UGH.
Are we almost done with this video?
I need a break.
• The continants are in a constant cycle of breaking up and going back into Pangaea,
there has been more than one Pangaea and there will be many more to come.
The only thing is that it takes millions of years for this cycle to happen, so it won’t
happen in our lifetimes.
• * • So.
Hellbent.
Have you tried, y’know, doing a good job voicing the script?
There’s a little thing, it’s called um… enthusiasm.
You use it to not…
put the audience… to sleep.
Try not being bad at this.
• Okay.
Enthusiasm.
Got it.
7 – yullenlover1000 - If stars are formed by a gas , then where does the gas come from?
• FROM THE BUTT.
FROM THE STINKY BUTT.
GOD’S BUTT.
LITERALLY, GOD’S RECTUM CREATED OUR UNIVERSE.
WITH A FART.
A STINKY FART.
• Um…
I think you’re taking what we said way too— • HUGE.
STINKY.
FARTS.
• * • Annnyway, most, if not all, of the stars
that currently exist are made up from the remains of dead stars, but the plasma and
gas that made up the first stars came from the big bang, as for where the big bang comes
from, we really don’t know.
• * • I LOVE MY JOB.
WOOOO.
ENTHUSIASM. 6 – Supersonic9687 - Why do Tornados spin?
(Hellbent, if you say FARTS, you are DONE here)
• That’s so everyone can have a good time.
It’s not boring.
Nobody goes near a tornado to read a book or have a nap – you go there to party down.
Here we go.
HERE WE GO.
YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHH — OH GOD IT’S KILLING ME NOOOOOOO
• Tornados form because of a mixture of hot humid air and cold dry air in a very windy
thunderstorm.
The hot and cold air moves up and down between the top and bottom of the storm and the only
way it can do this is by spinning.
5 – Thomas Evans - Does space have a smell?
• It smells like pain.
The pain of death.
Because you’ll die.
Because there’s no air.
So there is no smell.
But you won’t know that because you’ll be dead.
If you don’t believe me, go ahead and try it.
Here, I even made you this rocket.
Make sure to film it.
I want that footage.
• Astronauts who just got back from being in space say their space suits have a faint
smell clinging to them.
Some say it smells like welding fumes, whereas others says it smells like charred meat.
This smell probably comes from the remnants of the formation of stars and planets.
• Hey – stop telling kids to go DIE in SPACE!
That’s really cruel • If they’re dumb enough to travel into
space using my rocket, they don’t deserve to taint my gene pool by existing anymore.
4 – Alex Hutchinson - How much of our brain do we actually use?
• Well since you’re ‘wise’ enough to ask that I’m going to guess you barely
use any of it, but to HUMOUR YOU, you use precisely 66.6% of your brain, why is it that
amount?
Because I said so.
• Over the course of a day humans use almost 100% of the brains, contrary to the myth saying
we only use 10%.
Considering how our...your brains consume up 20% of the body's oxygen and sugars this
makes sense.
3 – Why do dogs walk in circles for naps?
• That’s because dogs have OCD, they need everything to be just right before they get
to nap, I mean they won’t even bother trying unless they’ve sniffed or eaten poop at
least once between their sleeps.
• Ten percent humidity, no no, that’s no good, needs to be at least 10.1%, ugh where
are my three and a half sun rays, ew, dusty, must remove it.
SCREW IT I GIVE UP.
• Well before dogs were tamed and domesticated they did this to create a sort of nest or
bed on the ground before they laid down and the habit remained despite the relatively
recent invention of dog beds.
• Come here little talking doggy, speak into the mic.
Daddy needs some new viral content.
• Bark!
• ... Bark?
Really?
2 – INDOMINUSguy- Why does Venus rotate backwards?
• Well that’s just because Venus is a massive hipster and has to spin backwards
because it doesn’t want to be seen as one of the norma—excuse me ‘un-lit’—planets
• Venus: I’m just like, way too hot for you guys.
• No one likes you.
• Well the current popular theory is that it used to spin like us and due to the strong
pull of the sun on its atmospheric tides caused a strong enough friction for it to start spinning
the other way.
1 – AgentKracko – Do you get wetter if you run or walk in the rain?
• Wet?
* • Alright.
Sorry guys.
I’m out.
I can’t do PG.
I’m sorry.
Later.
• Well there's a lot that goes into the answer behind this, but the answer is simple,
walking gets you wetter, as you're out in the rain for longer.
But you probably should still walk as tripping over and getting a concussion is much worse
than getting a bit wet.
• Huh, I actually have a new found respect for your…err ‘truth’ Dolan.
• More truth you say?
Hellbent is actually a good person, I’m pretty sure he donates to charity, I saw him
donate tons of gasoline to this orphanage.